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DBMS > BaseX vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgfauna.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.fauna.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFauna, Inc.CCRi and othersBaiduMicrosoft
Initial release20072014201420182016
Current release10.7, August 20234.0.5, February 20240.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScalaScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Unix
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsTransact SQL
Triggersyes infovia eventsnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingdepending on storage layeryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layeryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesvia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoedges in graphno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUsers, roles and permissionsyes

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